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No issues found in city’s audit
Scott Szabo of Lauer, Szabo & Associates, PC attended the May 18 Holyoke City Council meeting to provide an overview of the city’s 2020 audit, which was accepted as presented.
Meddling church committee chairwoman Ozella (Karina Davis), at right, is shocked to get a pie in the face from oldest child Harlene (Jennifer Hughes) in the chaos surrounding her father’s funeral. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Dorothy (Janel Wailes) fights to keep her house — and her sanity — after her husband’s death. — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Emotions run high after Dewey Fry’s death, and his daughter Sammy Jo (Brooklyn Leonard), at left, has an intense conversation with husband Beecham (Mark Meusborn). — The Holyoke Enterprise | Johnson Publications
Players bring comedy, drama, Southern accents and even food fights back to the stage after pandemic
Funerals bring out the worst, best and funniest in people, and the Fryes were no exception after the death of their patriarch.
This snapshot of pink, purple and orange clouds dotting the Holyoke sky, submitted by Heather McConachie, is just one example of the wide array of storm clouds that traveled through the area Sunday evening, May 23. According to weather observer Dan Kafka, Holyoke recorded 0.57 inch of rain that day. The storm was part of a wild and windy weekend that resulted in multiple tornado sightings across Colorado’s eastern plains.
Storm clouds put on a show
The old Webermeier place is pictured, located 6 miles east and 1/2 mile north of Holyoke. John W. Webermeier and his wife Katie moved there in 1898. They lived in a sod house connected to a small three-room frame house until they built a two-story house in 1910. John and other area farmers fought a prairie fire in 1906 or 1907. The fire was caused by sparks from a Burlington train. No homes burned, but the prairie was blackened as far as Pleasant Valley. John worked so long that he was exhausted and sick with rheumatism and stayed in bed for several months afterward. — Source: Phillips County Museum
Peekin’ into the past
Five Years Ago
May 26, 2016